Ida Rubinstein

**mrcheese** · June 15th, 2010, 06:16 PM

Ida Rubinstein

“You ask, was Ida Rubinstein talented? She wasn't completely without talent; it all depended on which director worked with her.”
© Meyerhold Speaks/Meyerhold Rehearses, 1998

Ida Lvovna Rubinstein
(5 October 1885 – 20 September 1960)
“…Born in St. Petersburg, Russia into a wealthy Jewish family, Rubinstein was orphaned at an early age. She had, by the standard of Russian ballet, little formal training. Under the private tutelage of Mikhail Fokine she debuted in 1909 with a single private performance of Oscar Wilde's Salome', stripping completely nude in the course of the Dance of the Seven Veils.
Sergei Diaghilev took her with the Ballets Russes and she danced the title role of Cleopatre in the Paris season of 1909. This performance was as a powerful spectacle, the costumes were designed by Leon Bakst and the finale inspired Kees van Dongen's Souvenir of the Russian Opera Season 1909.
Rubinstein was also much celebrated in art. Her portrait by Valentin Serov in 1910 marks the most complete realization of his mature style. The Art Deco sculptor Demetre Chiparus produced a Rubinstein figurine and she was painted by Antonio de la Gandara...”
© http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Rubinstein

“…When the Germans invaded France, she fled to England, the way eased by her long-time lover Walter Guinness (1880–1944), Lord Moyne, a high British official who was killed in Cairo in 1944 by Jewish terrorists. In London she adopted a squad of Free French airmen, whose survivors eventually paid for her tombstone…”
© http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/rubinstein-ida

Sem (Georges Goursat), George Barbier, Abbe, Aleksei Radakov, Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, Antonio de la Gandara, Auguste Bert, Boris Lipnitzki, d'Ora, Eugene Druet, Jacques-Emile Blanche, Kadel & Herbert, Lado Gudiashvili, Leon Bakst, Manuel Freres, Maurice Branger, Otto, Paul Thompson, Pavel Mak, Pavil, Rehbinder, Romaine Brooks, Underwood, Valentin Serov

**The Wolf Man** · June 26th, 2016, 07:39 PM

June 15th, 2010, 06:16 PM	#1
mrcheese Vintage Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Kyiv Posts: 578 Thanks: 44 Thanked 17,715 Times in 579 Posts	Ida Rubinstein Ida Rubinstein “You ask, was Ida Rubinstein talented? She wasn't completely without talent; it all depended on which director worked with her.” © Meyerhold Speaks/Meyerhold Rehearses, 1998 Ida Lvovna Rubinstein (5 October 1885 – 20 September 1960) “…Born in St. Petersburg, Russia into a wealthy Jewish family, Rubinstein was orphaned at an early age. She had, by the standard of Russian ballet, little formal training. Under the private tutelage of Mikhail Fokine she debuted in 1909 with a single private performance of Oscar Wilde's Salome', stripping completely nude in the course of the Dance of the Seven Veils. Sergei Diaghilev took her with the Ballets Russes and she danced the title role of Cleopatre in the Paris season of 1909. This performance was as a powerful spectacle, the costumes were designed by Leon Bakst and the finale inspired Kees van Dongen's Souvenir of the Russian Opera Season 1909. Rubinstein was also much celebrated in art. Her portrait by Valentin Serov in 1910 marks the most complete realization of his mature style. The Art Deco sculptor Demetre Chiparus produced a Rubinstein figurine and she was painted by Antonio de la Gandara...” © http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Rubinstein “…When the Germans invaded France, she fled to England, the way eased by her long-time lover Walter Guinness (1880–1944), Lord Moyne, a high British official who was killed in Cairo in 1944 by Jewish terrorists. In London she adopted a squad of Free French airmen, whose survivors eventually paid for her tombstone…” © http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/rubinstein-ida Sem (Georges Goursat), George Barbier, Abbe, Aleksei Radakov, Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, Antonio de la Gandara, Auguste Bert, Boris Lipnitzki, d'Ora, Eugene Druet, Jacques-Emile Blanche, Kadel & Herbert, Lado Gudiashvili, Leon Bakst, Manuel Freres, Maurice Branger, Otto, Paul Thompson, Pavel Mak, Pavil, Rehbinder, Romaine Brooks, Underwood, Valentin Serov

June 26th, 2016, 07:39 PM	#2
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